Effective professional growth experiences should be accompanied by opportunities to reflect and to plan follow-up action. The TELL Project believes that teachers should be empowered to make reflection and planning routine part of their professional lives. Two specific TELL growth plans are designed to facilitate this type of empowered growth:
This tool can be used by teachers who choose to self-assess how well they reflect TELL criteria for just one specific domain. Following completion of the self-assessment, decide which criteria you would like to focus on for a defined period of time (grading period, semester, school year, summer). The template below will guide you in laying out next steps in growing toward your goals.
This tool can be used by teachers who choose to self-assess how well they reflect TELL criteria for the complete TELL Framework. Following completion of the self-assessments use page 1 of this form to narrow down which 2 criteria you would like to focus on for each domain. Then, select the top two criteria that you would like to work on for a defined period of time (grading period, semester, school year, summer). The template below will guide you in laying out next steps in growing toward your goals.